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Globalization and the Rise of Mega-Cities in the Developing World
van der Ploeg, Rick; Poelhekke, Steven - 2021
Thomas Friedman has argued in The World is Flat that those who deny rapid globalization will not survive in the global economy. First, we critically discuss Friedman's views and highlight the new globalization driven by outsourcing and vertical specialization. Second, we argue that Friedman pays...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316592
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How Low Business Tax Rates Attract Multinational Headquarters : Municipality-Level Evidence from Germany
Becker, Sascha O. - 2009
,000 municipalities in Germany to analyze the sensitivity of the location decisions of foreign MNEs with respect to business tax rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765355
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Demographic Change and Regional Labour Markets: The Case of Eastern Germany
Henschel, Beate; Pohl, Carsten; Thum, Marcel - CESifo - 2008
simulation results for eastern Germany, a forerunner in the demographic process, show that the population decline will not help …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005405965
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Marketmaking Middlemen
Gautier, Pieter A. - 2016
This paper develops a model in which market structure is determined endogenously by the choice of intermediation mode. We consider two representative business modes of intermediation that are widely used in real-life markets: one is a middleman mode by which an intermediary holds inventories...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982510
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How Low Business Tax Rates Attract Multinational Headquarters: Municipality-Level Evidence from Germany
Becker, Sascha O.; Egger, Peter; Merlo, Valeria - CESifo - 2009
,000 municipalities in Germany to analyze the sensitivity of the location decisions of foreign MNEs with respect to business tax rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196196
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Globalization and the Rise of Mega-Cities in the Developing World
Poelhekke, Steven; Ploeg, Frederick Van der - CESifo - 2008
Thomas Friedman has argued in The World is Flat that those who deny rapid globalization will not survive in the global economy. First, we critically discuss Friedman’s views and highlight the new globalization driven by outsourcing and vertical specialization. Second, we argue that Friedman...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196306
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Inefficient Lock-in and Subsidy Competition
Borck, Rainald; Koh, Hyun-Ju; Pflüger, Michael - CESifo - 2009
This paper shows that subsidy competition may be efficiency enhancing. We model a subsidy game among two asymmetric … subsidy competition, starting from an equilibrium where the industry core is inefficiently locked in to the smaller region …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051556
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Secrecy Jurisdiction
Schjelderup, Guttorm - 2015
This paper surveys tax haven legislation and links the literature on tax havens to the literature on asymmetric information. I argue that the core aim of tax haven legislation is to create private information (secrecy) for the users of tax havens. This leads to moral hazard and transaction costs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013025970
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Secrecy Jurisdictions
Schjelderup, Guttorm - CESifo - 2015
This paper surveys tax haven legislation and links the literature on tax havens to the literature on asymmetric information. I argue that the core aim of tax haven legislation is to create private information (secrecy) for the users of tax havens. This leads to moral hazard and transaction costs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011200047
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Competition for Migrants in a Federation : Tax or Transfer Competition?
Koethenbuerger, Marko - 2012
The paper provides an equilibrium analysis of how countries compete for migrants. The type of competition (tax or … transfer competition) depends on whether the competing countries have similar policy preferences. With symmetric preferences …, countries compete in taxes for migrants. With asymmetric preferences, migration competition takes place in income support levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111835